A Golden Wake

Grundislav Games, the maker of A Golden Wake, has announced its next adventure game, Lamplight City [official site]. It takes me back to the many nights I spent sitting on the edge of my parents' bed watching Dad play adventure games like Loom. Dad would play for a little bit and stop because they weren't quite his cup of tea, but they were mine. I…

There’s something I wish I’d known as I began playing retro point and click adventure A Golden Wake. I wish I’d known that it was, in large parts, a true story. The reason I didn’t know this was because it began with a statement explaining that despite its historical setting, the characters and events were fictional. Here's wot I think: It turns out Coral Gables…

Ah, the 1920s! A decade of good times for those riding high on the great waves of cash crashing upon the real estate and banking industries. Were I a hateful thing, I'd crack An Hilarious Joke about current events. Adventure game A Golden Wake is slightly less fun, as Alfie Banks' real estate dreams get tangled up in the mob. It's made by Grundislav Games,…

OK, OK, let me see if I can hack my way through a jungle of redundancy to get this all straight: A Golden Wake is a golden-age-style adventure set in America's own golden age that sees you completing goal(d)s to strike it rich (probably in gold) even as the mob and Great Depression loom. Whew. I suppose I could've just said, "American Roaring Twenties point-and-click…